Following reports that pet food had been recalled due to melamine contamination, the latest report has consumers panicking as they try to determine which ones are safe for their family. Considering that a large amount of products now come from China and have been patronized due to their low price, alarms have now been raised with news circulating that melamine has also tainted milk formula from China which has made thousands of children ill.

Food experts believe that it may have been part of China’s food chain for a long time now. To date, 53,000 infants have gotten sick after drinking formula milk deliberately contaminated with melamine. Four babies have died, 13,000 have been hospitalized, and 104 are currently in a critical condition with kidney stones caused by the adulterant.

Apparently, baby formula milk requires high protein content and producers are able to cheat on this regulation by mixing it with melamine powder. However, the list of contaminated food is not limited to just baby formula. Even meat products can be contaminated if the food fed to these animals were likewise tainted with melamine. It can also be absorbed by plants if the pesticide used contains cyromazine, a derivative of melamine, which is commonly used in China as a pesticide.

Though effects are not verified yet, experts say that melamine cause kidney stones and other kidney problems. It is still uncertain what the long term effects are. While kidney stones can be removed easily, melamine may cause other damage when it crystallizes and blocks the small tubes in the kidney that filter blood.

Following are the products that are suspected for possible melamine contamination:

Bairong Grape Cream Crackers

Dove Hazelnut Almond & Raisin Chocolate

Dove Hazelnut Chocolate

Dove Milk Chocolate

Dreyers Rocky Road Ice Cream

Dreyers Strawberry Ice Cream

Dreyers Toast Almond Ice Cream

Dreyers Chocolate Cake Ice Cream

Dreyers Cookies & Cream Ice Cream

Dreyers Mint Chip Ice Cream

Dreyers Vanilla Ice Cream

Dutch Lady Sterilized Milk Lf Banana

Dutch Lady Sterilized Milk Lf Plain

Dutch Lady Sterilized Milk Lf Chocolate

Dutch Lady Sterilized Milk Lf Strawberry

Dutch Lady Sterilized Milk Lf Honeydew

First Choice Calcium Sesame Crackers

First Choice Calcium Saltine Crackers

First Choice Calcium Onion Crackers

First Choice Calcium Seaweed Crackers

Ginbis Party Animal Butter Biscuits

Ginbis Party Animal Seaweed Biscuits

Ginbis Party Animal Cnut

Ginbis Animal Biscuit

Koala Cocoa Biscuit

Kraft Oreo Wafer Sticks 18s

Kraft Oreo Wafer Sticks 5s

Kraft Oreo Wafer Stick White Chocolate 18s

Kraft Oreo Wafer Stick White Chocoolate 5s

Lotte Koala Cocoa Funpack

M&M Chocolate Plain

M&M Chocolate Peanut

M&M Funsize Milk

M&M Funsize Peanut

Meiji Ujikintoki

Meiji Umakabo Chocolate

Meiji Family Pack-Green Tea

Meiji Chestnut & Redbean

Mentos Bottle Yoghurt Promo Pk

Mentos Bottle Yoghurt

Monmilk Breakfast Milk Malt 6s

Monmilk Breakfast Milk Walnut 6s

Monmilk Chocolate Milk 6s

Monmilk Coffee Milk 6s

Monmilk Pure Milk 6s

Monmilk Hi Cal Milk 6s

Monmilk Hi Cal Low Fat Milk 6s

Monmilk Milk Deluxe 12s

Nabisco In A Biskit Chicken

Nestle Nes D/Stick Mini Vanilla

Nestle Nes Distick Mini Choco

Nestle Milk & Berry Stars Cereal

No Frills Wafer Blueberry

No Frills Wafer Chocolate

No Frills Wafer Peanut

Orion Fresh Pie

Orion Tiramisu

Pei Tian Cream Biscuit

Rabbit Milk Sweet

Silang Natural Oat Cracker

Snickers Candies Funsize

Snickers Peanut Chocolate

Snickers Snacksize Bars Peanut

Take One Baby Bites 24s

Take One Baby Bite Ck Vg

Take One Baby Bite Carrot

Vitasoy Q Soya Milk

Vitasoy Chocolate Milk

Vitasoy Melon Soya Milk

Wall’s All Natural Mango

Wall’s Mini Cornetto Ice Cream

Wall’s Mini Poppers Ice Cream

Wall’s Magnum Ice Cream

Wall’s Moo Sandwich Ice Cream

Want Want Milk Candy

Want Want Flavoured Milk

White Rabbit chewy candy

Yili Pure Milk 1L

Yili Hi Cal Milk 1L

Yili Hi Cal Milk 6s

Yili Hi Cal Lo Fat Milk 1L

Youcan Unusual Multipack

Youcan Strawberry Multipack

Youcan Traditional Sesame Multipack

Youcan Passion Multipack

Youcan Masterbean Multipack

Youcan Silk Sliced And Passion Strawberry

Pei Tian Cream Biscuit

* Jolly Cow Milk and Cadbury Chocolates from China were not formally included in the list, but were voluntarily taken off the shelves by manufacturers and retailers to avert any possible health risk to consumers.

Note that the above list is not verified considering that health officials refuse to give a formal list of products. However, the source of the list even includes product codes which I only omitted. Pass this article on to your friends and family here and abroad. Even with reports still unverified, we should stay on the side of caution and protect our family, especially the children, from the health risks that these unscrupulous manufacturers are distributing around the world.

hey edward good point. problem is, china is very attractive to multinational companies as their site for manufacturing these branded goods because of very cheap production inputs such as raw materials and of course, labor. china has an inescapable presence in our lives, thats good for them, and bad for us… just think of one item right now, and rest assured that China will always have their own, cheaper version… anyways, with this milk scare, i hope everyone be a little more vigilant with the goods they buy and avoid China-made products for the time being (or for good, if you can afford it)…

I purchase a generic line of products,(Master Choice),from a national grocery chain named Food Basics…Included is a coffee whitener that reads,”Product of USA” but the barcode number is 69200 24500,which means made in China,(692),please beware.